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The best interest of the child: Samiya A. Bashir examines changing dynamics of transracial adoption. (Report).
In a landmark 1972 statement, the National Association of Black Social Workers (NABSW) declared its opposition to transracial adoption. It called the practice of placing black children in white adoptive families "a blatant form of racial and cultural genocide." The NABSW cited, as reasons for their position, concerns that the practice isolated children from their racial and cultural identity, and would leave them unprepared to live in a racist society.
The NABSW's controversial statement, and the supporting position paper it released, was just the tip of a now long-running debate, carried out in the "best interests" of children too young to articulate the ...
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- Magazine article from: Social Work Hollingsworth, Leslie Doty September 1, 1999 700+ words
...association between African American culture and the socialization of African American children, and...opposition to transracial adoption within this framework...opposing the transracial adoption of African American children. The...
- SHOULD TRANSRACIAL ADOPTION BE AN OPTION?
- Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN) October 16, 1994 700+ words
...policy as necessary. "African- American children need to feel...can best be done in an African-American family," she said...reaching out to recruit African-American families, transracial adoption wouldn't be necessary...
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- Magazine article from: Journal of Counseling and Development Bradley, Carla Hawkins-Leon, Cynthia G. September 22, 2002 700+ words
...placement, some African American children...referred to as "transracial adoption" (Grow...adoption of African American children...regarding the transracial adoption debate...relation to the transracial adoption of African American children...
- Parenting Across the Color Line.(books on transracial adoption)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Black Issues Book Review Stevenson-Moudamane, Veronica January 1, 2001 700+ words
...homes for African American children...arguments against transracial adoption is that white...Birthmarks: Transracial Adoption in Contemporary...Even while transracial adoption is picking...hire more African American social workers...
- College student attitudes toward transracial adoption *.
- Magazine article from: College Student Journal Whatley, Mark Jahangardi, Julia N. Ross, Rashonda Knox, David September 1, 2003 700+ words
...attitudes toward transracial adoption. Significant...An African-American baby abandoned...issue of transracial adoption (defined...completed the Transracial Adoption Scale developed...11%, African American, 1% Asian...
- Author speaks out on transracial adoption
- Newspaper article from: Bay State Banner Crystal Hubbard April 6, 1995 700+ words
...that equated transracial adoption with "cultural...affecting transracial adoption. The 1995...efforts to place African American children with African American families...questions of transracial adoption, says Howe...
- Should Transracial Adoption Rules Change? // Don't Let Race Keep Children in...
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Rita J. Simon April 16, 1994 700+ words
Transracial adoption remains an...that said transracial adoption should only...representatives of the African-American community...blacks, the African American is wonderfully...enriched by the transracial adoption experience...
- From roots to routes.(Birthmarks: Transracial Adoption in Contemporary...
- Magazine article from: The Women's Review of Books Epstein, Julia September 1, 2001 700+ words
Birthmarks: Transracial Adoption in Contemporary...interviewed 22 African American or biracial adults...restrictions on transracial adoption was removed from...restrictions on transracial adoption and offered financial...
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